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Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
The Shipwreck of Don Juan is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. [1] It depicts a scene from Lord Byron epic poem Don Juan. [2] Don Juan and others are adrift in the Mediterranean in a ship's boat following a shipwreck. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1841.
Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (1800–1873) was an Italian noblewoman and the married lover [2] of Lord Byron while he was living in Ravenna and writing the first five cantos of Don Juan. [3] She wrote the biographical account Lord Byron's Life in Italy. [4]
While in captivity, Gnedich translated Don Juan by Lord Byron into Russian. She knew the original, more than 16,000 lines, by heart. It took several years to complete, and she often had to secure paper from a guard who was sympathetic to her work. [4] The Russian edition was published in 1956. [5]
Beppo: A Venetian Story is a lengthy poem by Lord Byron, [1] written in Venice in 1817. Beppo marks Byron's first attempt at writing using the Italian ottava rima metre, which emphasized satiric digression. It is the precursor to Byron's most famous and generally considered best poem, Don Juan. The poem contains 760 verses, divided into 95 stanzas.
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